Position Title: Regional Field Director - Western PA
Level: First/Mid Level Officials and Managers
Job Location: Western PA
Position Type: Exempt/Full Time
Education Level: Highschool diploma or GED
Salary Range: $54,000.00 Salary/year
Travel %: Up to 50%
Job Shift: Any
Job Categories: Nonprofit - Social Services
ABOUT FOR OUR FUTURE
Founded in 2016, For Our Future Action Fund and For Our Future run the largest, permanent progressive field program across key states. Our vision is to expand the progressive infrastructure and advance economic prosperity for all, strong community schools, climate justice, and racial and social justice. Along with community partners and volunteers, we consistently engage with people in face-to-face conversations around what issues matter most to them. By organizing people in lasting relationships, we win elections, drive local progress, make a community's collective voice heard, and help build the transformative power needed to improve people's lives.
In 2018, we made over 10 million door knocks and held 1.5 million face-to-face conversations with voters in 7 states. Our turnout operation and innovative program helped restore voting rights to 1.4 million Floridians, expand Medicaid coverage to 400,000 in Virginia, and resulted in sizable electoral progress at the state and federal level, including the pickup of 3 Governor mansions, 1 Senate seat, 13 Congressional seats, and 22 state legislative seats.
For Our Future will continue to grow and win through 2020, building power across issue fights and elections. Headquartered in Washington, DC, our current state programs include Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
JOB SUMMARY
For Our Future Pennsylvania seeks a full-time Regional Field Director for an aggressive organizing, communications, digital and voter contact program in Western Pennsylvania. The Regional Field Director will be responsible for executing the field plan, political organizing, regional communications and supervising organizer and volunteer operations(s) within their assigned region. Responsibilities may grow to include managing a regional team and a paid canvass operation. This position may require frequent travel throughout Allegheny, Washington, Westmoreland, and Beaver counties. Regional Field Directors report to the State Field Director.
For Our Future Pennsylvania is a statewide coalition organization that builds progressive power through voter engagement and organizing within communities around key issues and candidates. We uplift the voices of the community and work to strengthen public education, advance social and racial justice, preserve our environment, and fight for working families. Our commitment to advancing progressive causes extends to the ballot box, and we work hard every election to support candidates who share our values.
This is a full-time position through at least November 6, 2020.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
● Hiring, managing, and training regional staff and volunteers to execute a comprehensive field and digital organizing program.
● Building crucial relationships with leaders of the progressive community and serving as regional lead for our partnership program.
● Training and assisting local and regional partners and volunteers to build stronger long-term progressive capacity in the region.
● Managing organizers to educate constituents on progressive issues and with get-out-the-vote programs to boost progressives up and down the ballot.
● Facilitating and overseeing daily in-person and/or virtual canvass and voter contact launches.
● Working with our communications team to plan, coordinate, and implement regional media events including op-eds, letters to the editor, press conferences and other events as required.
● Working with our digital team to plan, coordinate, and implement regional digital organizing outreach and events.
● Monitoring metrics at regularly assigned intervals. These metrics include, but are not limited to: volunteers recruited, voter contact attempts per shift, flake rate, completion rate, confirmation rate, hiring metrics, etc.
● Implementing systems to ensure regionally assigned metrics are met or exceeded.
● Entering and overseeing timely and accurate reports in VAN & Google Suite.
● Working with state leadership to implement the state plan in the region and giving feedback to improve the quality of our operations in the region.
● Positively representing our organization at virtual and in-person community events and meetings.
● Other duties, as assigned.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
● Manage one or more teams of organizers and/or volunteers.
SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
● High school diploma or equivalent (GED).
● At least two cycles of competitive campaign or advocacy experience.
● At least two years of experience managing a team and hitting competitive field goals.
● At least two years relationship-based organizing and leadership development experience, including one-on-one meetings and team building.
● Proven experience managing a team including resolving conflicts and holding team members accountable; strong coaching skills and abilities.
● Experience implementing a statewide field plan tailored to an assigned region.
● Strong knowledge of Votebuilder/VAN.
● Ability to outreach and build partnerships with other progressive organizations.
● Ability to work long and irregular hours in a fast-paced, metrics-driven work environment.
● Adaptable to changing conditions requiring critical thinking skills.
● Experience in managing programs that develop the capacity to meet metrics-based goals on data-driven campaigns.
● Must have basic computer literacy; access to a reliable laptop is ideal.
● Must have access to reliable transportation.
● Ability to meet deadlines under pressure while handling multiple projects.
● Experience in supporting media and communications programming, preferred.
● Bilingual experience is a plus, but not required.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
● During the telework period: Telework environments vary, but work is typically performed in a home office.
● During fieldwork period: Work may be performed outdoors, and employees may be required to work in extreme weather conditions, including rainy, hot, and cold temperatures. This position is expected to interact safely and regularly with community partners face-to-face or in a group setting, and may also be expected to interact face-to-face safely with volunteers or voters.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
● Primary physical demands for the job include regular sitting, standing/walking, and lifting up to 25 pounds.
EXPECTED HOURS OF WORK
● Employees may be required to work outside of normal business hours, including weekends, holidays, and nights.
● Employees may be required to abide by certain blackout dates during a campaign cycle, and generally not allowed to take more than 2-3 days off consecutively, unless it's an emergency.
For Our Future offers the following benefits to all full-time employees:
■ Health insurance coverage - 95% employer paid and 5% employee paid.
■ Paid parental leave.
■ Retirement savings plan with matching contributions up to the first 5%.
■ $100 monthly cell phone bill reimbursement.
■ 13 days paid time off every calendar year, as well as other paid holidays.
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.
For Our Future Action Fund is an equal opportunity employer. This application will not be used for limiting or excluding any applicant from consideration for employment on a basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law, including race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or parental status, creed, national origin, disability, ancestry, military service, or veteran status. Should an applicant need reasonable accommodation in the application process, they should contact a company representative.
AT-WILL EMPLOYMENT
The relationship between you and the For Our Future Action Fund is referred to as "employment at will." This means that your employment can be terminated at any time for any reason, with or without cause, with or without notice, by you or the For Our Future Action Fund/For Our Future. No representative of For Our Future Action Fund has authority to enter into any employment agreement with you that is contrary to the foregoing "employment at will" relationship. By signing below, you hereby affirm your that your employment is "at will", and that you acknowledge that no oral or written statements or representations regarding your employment can alter your "at will" status, except for a written statement signed by you and our Chief Executive Officer or duly authorized representative as determined by a resolution of the Board of Directors of For Our Future Action Fund.
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